The Book of Yellow Lantern (Hank Henshaw)

[Scapemage]

Aha, he is. Not having Yellow Power Battery X is an easy way to forget that one.

[Scapemage]

Updated.

[Ronin]

Updated the synergy because there were some things missing and I wanted to see how nuts the full version would get. Not too crazy, but the guy has a lot of synergy tags.

EDIT: Might want to update the art links as well - the comic, figure and background link goes to a post that contains none of the three.

[johnny139]

Since he doesn't have a traditional battery, doesn't look the part, and (as far as I know) has never used the name, do we want to break precedent on calling him a Yellow Lantern here?

Also, his personality is Nihilistic rather than Nihilist. I know we've talked about overhauling that personality but I'd rather be consistent one way or another.

[Lazy Orang]

Originally Posted by johnny139

Since he doesn't have a traditional battery, doesn't look the part, and (as far as I know) has never used the name, do we want to break precedent on calling him a Yellow Lantern here?

Also, his personality is Nihilistic rather than Nihilist. I know we've talked about overhauling that personality but I'd rather be consistent one way or another.

We're using Nihilistic on Baby Groot. I've already explained in detail why I think Nihilist was a mistake in the first place and it ought to be changed.

[Ronin]

Originally Posted by johnny139

Since he doesn't have a traditional battery, doesn't look the part, and (as far as I know) has never used the name, do we want to break precedent on calling him a Yellow Lantern here?

Bit late in the game to take away his Sinestro Corps Soldier bonding, isn't it?

[johnny139]

Originally Posted by Lazy Orang

We're using Nihilistic on Baby Groot. I've already explained in detail why I think Nihilist was a mistake in the first place and it ought to be changed.

Yeah but he doesn't have a card yet so I haven't looked that closely.

Like I said, I'm not fundamentally against the change (though I would probably be in favor of sticking with Nihilist just because I'm a slave to precedent). I just don't want us to half-change it and have two nearly identical personalities floating around.

Originally Posted by Ronin

Bit late in the game to take away his Sinestro Corps Soldier bonding, isn't it?

Well yeah, when you put it like that it's obviously a bad idea... but I think bringing up the actual game isn't fair.

[Lazy Orang]

Originally Posted by johnny139

Yeah but he doesn't have a card yet so I haven't looked that closely.

Like I said, I'm not fundamentally against the change (though I would probably be in favor of sticking with Nihilist just because I'm a slave to precedent). I just don't want us to half-change it and have two nearly identical personalities floating around.

I was always in favour of making a round the board change, I just didn't want to push it as priority until closer to Baby Groot's release.

[Scapemage]

Yeah, not divorcing from Yellow Lantern as a name here. Quite a long time coming to rip that one from him.

Nihilistic has been used on Black Hand, so we should update that. Nihilist has been used on 4 of our figures, one of which is the actual Cyborg Superman (and a 5th figure being official Marvelscape Thanos), so I would be in favor of that here. I'm not opposed if we want to update them all to Nihilistic, but it would be a bit of work. Could use a few more opinions on this.

[IAmBatman]

Good one to discuss in the Outer Sanctum or somewhere, but I'm in favor of it being settled and being consistent. We really don't need both of those personalities. And I want it nice and streamlined before I do a huge card printing in a few months.

[Ronin]

Nihilist is more widely-used, and is used on Hasbro Thanos, who we can't update.

Nihilistic is grammatically better.

That's sort of the pro/con.

[Lazy Orang]

Originally Posted by Scapemage

Yeah, not divorcing from Yellow Lantern as a name here. Quite a long time coming to rip that one from him.

Nihilistic has been used on Black Hand, so we should update that. Nihilist has been used on 4 of our figures, one of which is the actual Cyborg Superman (and a 5th figure being official Marvelscape Thanos), so I would be in favor of that here. I'm not opposed if we want to update them all to Nihilistic, but it would be a bit of work. Could use a few more opinions on this.

Yeah, but literally all other figures we have have an adjective as a personality. Using a noun is inconsistent with everything else and reads wrong. I don't care if Hasbro put it on the official Thanos - Hasbro got it wrong, and we'd never have used it if we weren't being slaves to a precedent that breaks the greater precedent. When there is a word with the same meaning, but an adjective, there is no logical reason to be inconsistent with 700 an upwards cards and use a noun.

Originally Posted by Ronin

Nihilist is more widely-used, and is used on Hasbro Thanos, who we can't update.

Nihilistic is grammatically better.

That's sort of the pro/con.

We updated the Hasbro figures to have Secret Identities, even to the point that Banner can transform into Hasbro Hulk and Iron Man MkIV can remotely control his Hasbro suit - updating him to Nihilistic shouldn't be an issue.




~ Lazy Orang, in full 'daughter of an English teacher' mode.